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Kevin C. Moore

@kevncmoore.bsky.social
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Advanced Lecturer and Notation in Science Communication Coordinator @ Stanford Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Writing about science and rhetoric, propaganda studies, Ralph Ellison. Opinions my own.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Anyway. Data politics are the cataclysmic danger. AI is mostly just a mid tech attached to a speculative finance scheme. Anything it can make dangerous is already dangerous enough to kill us.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Polk Gulch sunset, 8/27.
Orange and purple sunset in San Francisco.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Geometries of the clinic (@ Stanford Dept of Medicine).
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
TFW you remove an entire hemisphere from a hard-boiled egg.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Was documenting an especially stupid AI ad when I accidentally photographed a city hawk!
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
SF from Marin today.
City under fog with verdant hills in foreground.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I beat this drum for ten years. It won’t take. People don’t want to know this and so they don’t know it.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Deeply resent my new neighbor’s delivery today (decorative books sold by volume).
Box from scam company selling books without regard for content.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Someone should write a novel based on what this question implies about the contradictions and limits of human agency (“should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals?”). Might have one handy…
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“This is not a case of go do the reading and then you can start making a plan. Reading, listening, and having conversations is the plan…”
theamericanvandal.com
Neuroplasticity As A Praxis
We Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Spoke to me today.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Go figure.
science.org
AI’s top startups are barely publishing their research
More than half of AI “unicorns” have never published a paper or preprint
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Long boy surveying his blockdom. 🐈‍⬛
Tall cat looking out over San Francisco block.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Alice Speri (@alicesperi.bsky.social) of @theguardian.com once again covering the actual story of what’s happening in HigherEd.
theguardian.com
‘Dialogue is all the rage’: why is the right pouring millions into ‘civil discourse’ initiatives on US campuses?
Universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy are flocking to ‘civility’ initiatives. Critics say these efforts mask a darker project
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Would/will admittedly find it pretty rad to see The Conversation IN Union Square.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
At the gate.
Golden Gate.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Fairly committed to spending the next eight weeks here (summer at last…).
Book + sunny SF rooftop.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I take it back. The Monaco ads now on every bus stop in town are even stupider (although I suppose at least honest about their ambition$).
Stupid, craven AI company ad.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A reminder that the statistical majority of the text you encounter now on the Internet is not actually meant for you as a human being reading, even if it happens to resemble legible prose. #Textpocalypse
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Currently on a Caltrain, in San Mateo, CA, listening to two AI bros (one of whom is French) plotting how to publish scam articles in reputable scientific journals as a method of proving their skills.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Last teaching day of 38th grade but who’s counting.
44 year old professional student
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Sphinxing today, but still my favorite creature.
Perfect cat sphinxing.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Electric Caltrain named Nancy Pelosi being pulled by a diesel locomotive = everything’s a metaphor now.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Just here to offer my perspective.
View from Loma Alta, Marin County, with San Francisco in distance.SF in distance.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Don’t get me started.
Campus flier reading “What’s the most niche thing you’re kind of an expert on.”
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Now that the AI overlords are *literally* lining up in Rome, seems an apt time to repost this…
contrastsmag.net
The Vesuvian Fallacy - Contrasts
It matters little whether or not the unraveled text of the Herculaneum scroll is legitimate: we cannot know.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Abundantly on board with the new programming on my block.
Sticker reading "DREAM LOOP ACTIVE" in orange lettering on a sidewalk grate.
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Ana Hevesi @anthrocypher.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Curiosity and imagination as survival imperatives, not nice-to-haves
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Did not expect my main plumeria, long dormant, to make such an auspicious comeback this spring.
Auspicious plumeria with city in background
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Dr. Thinking is fun @evenannaliese.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
“AI” in the form we’re experiencing it—political, educational, and commercial forced adoption—is social engineering and ideological indoctrination at a scale and speed only the most dystopian narratives have imagined. Truly Cassandra and gaslight feelings to be witnessing and objecting in this era.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
No I will not.
Extraordinarily stupid AI ad at San Francisco Caltrain depot. A sign of desperation.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It’s been hard for me to accept this bit of Twainian wisdom, but it’s paramount. If you’re winning most of the fights you pick, you’re either picking the wrong fights or you’re picking the wrong side.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Was pretty thrilled to give early editions of Marianne Moore's Complete Poems to our graduating Science Communication cohort on Friday, where MM becomes instructive for her approaches to metaphor and revision and compilation. But the inscriptions and bookplates in these books were also the best.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Now that’s an epigraph.
Epigraph to Paul Auster’s Leviathan reading “Every actual State is corrupt.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Polishing the Burghers of Calais (has got to be a metaphor for something).
Staff polishing Rodin’s Burghers of Calais in Stanford’s Memorial Court
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
When you’re already having a good morning and then unlock a literary life goal.
All the reasonably priced early editions of Marianne Moore’s Complete Poems for sale in North America in Spring 2026.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Caturday night.
Perfect gato enjoying caturday night.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Might be the healthiest plant I’ve raised 🌵.
A very auspicious cactus with minor supporting foliage, in sun and shadows, with city view in background.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Satire > evil.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Unexpected morning rainbow over SF. 🌈
Rainbow over the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-…
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Lunar envy.
Pavement inscribed with the phrase “I’ve never been to the moon.”
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
How I feel when hearing stupid arguments about the inevitability of AI uptake.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Enjoyed a very pious Easter service hosted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at Mission Dolores Park, San Francisco.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This particular moon.
Sf moon
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Woltergeist 2: The Other Side-Eye @wolter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Oh so now copyright matters.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Finally made a visit to the Ralph Ellison Memorial on Riverside Drive, below the apartment building the author lived in for many years.
Invisible Man sculpture below Ralph Ellison’s former apartment.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Finally had a moment to read this. Such an essential reading of the current tone of AI-adoption rhetoric.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Winter veg.
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